“Speak what we feel not what we ought to say.” A quote from Edgar in Act V; Scene III of Shakespeare’s King Lear, one which actually did make it into this rendering of King Lear as presented by The Rude Mechanicals at the Greenbelt Arts Center through September 7th 2025. Often a show will sit and rankle with me, because of a certain line, a certain choice, a certain approach,
People always find terrible ways to justify doing horrible things. But we enjoy watching horrible things; it gives us a feeling of immortality. We, however, are not immortal. Life is short. And the time that we spend with our loved ones is mostly behind us. Single Carrot Theatre opens their 11th season here in Baltimore with Young Jean Lee’s Lear, a peculiar exploration of familial dysfunction threaded loosely within the confines of Shakespeare’s King Lear.